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Click here to watch the video The video The Last Breath is the culmination of four performances under the title The Last Breath. The subject is derived from memories of two experiences of approaching death. The first was at Speakers Corner in 1967, when a speaker spoke of his immanent death. The other is derived from being the sole witness to a man burning to death in an East London park in 1998. In December 2006 a video was filmed at the performance in the Schlacthaus Bern, under the Bone
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Click here to watch the video I came across Barbara Suckfull`s word drawings in a catalogue… And was impressed by the visual qualities of the drawing made visible through the elegant script. When I read the translation of one or two of the texts I was intrigued by the seemingly mild difficulties she recorded. However the discourtesies she mentioned I would imagine become relatively intense when experienced in incarceration. Her invocation of the red headed nurse in
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Next Door (the missing subject)
Next Door (the missing text) First Day 12. 5. 2010 Next door is an abandoned retail outfit. It seems to contain the detritus of at least three businesses, a sign making company, electrical retailer and a bookshop. There are also some records of applications made by children to a charity of some kind. It exhibits all the evidence of abandonment. It is owned by the local council and has been shuttered down for some considerable period. There are signs of flooding which came from the toilet and
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Landscapes This project began after considering William Blake’s poem Jerusalem, which together with music by Hubert Parry has become the second if informal national anthem in England. It is sung at football matches where there appears to be an unfortunate lack of suitable songs other than the dull slow moving national anthem. Jerusalem stands as a hopeful expression of a bright future. And did those feet in ancient time. Walk upon England's mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God,
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Pit
Pit is a dark image the bottom half revealing the edge of a pit with roots hanging over the edge, looking up into a tangle of trees through which a summery light can be seen. The attempt is to enclose the viewer in a dark enclosing atmosphere with just traces of light seen through thick foliage in the upper right hand part of the image.
Stuart Brisley
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Sink
Sink is a reversal of Pit where the viewer looks down into the muddy water of a stagnant pool in a wood. The viewer is enclosed by the shrubbery of small marshy trees. The gaze is directed into opaque muddy water.
Stuart Brisley
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Next Door (the missing subject)
Click here to view the trailer: http://vimeo.com/44627473 The shop space next door to PEER, owned by Hackney Council, was previously leased to a bookseller, an electrical supplies business and a signmaker's business. It was then disused for four years or so before being rented to PEER.The lease negotiations were completed just two days before the performance Next Door (the missing subject) was scheduled to start. The shop was full of abandoned materials, tools and assorted
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Shadow
Shadow is an open scene of a huge field leading up to a stretch of dense wood at the apex of a hill. Above is a part cloudy sky with intimations of sunlight between rain clouds. A shadow covers the bottom half of the field. The shadow leaches out the colour of the field leading to intimations of death along with the summery aspect of the field in sunlight.
Stuart Brisley
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